Petrified forest discovered
R. Baldwin
property near Yakima. Apparently the trees were standing when buried by a
lava flow. Has anyone seen an article about this?
Lorentz
wrote:
> NPR announced today that a petrified forest has been found on private
> property near Yakima. Apparently the trees were standing when buried by a
> lava flow. Has anyone seen an article about this?
Wouldn't they more likely be buried by ash? Or buried by ash, which
was then covered with lava? I didn't think that lava directly applied
left very much.
edwar...@verizon.net
wrote:
> property near Yakima. Apparently the trees were standing when buried by a
> lava flow. Has anyone seen an article about this?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070423/sc_livescience/ancientrainforestrevealedincoalmine
"...The largest ever found, the fossil forest covers an area of about
40 square miles, or nearly the size of San Francisco. This ancient
assemblage of flora is thought to be one of the first rainforests on
Earth, emerging during the Upper Carboniferous, or Pennsylvanian, time
period that extended from about 310 million to 290 million years ago.
A reconstruction of the ancient forest showed that like today's
rainforests, it had a layered structure with a mix of plants now
extinct: Abundant club mosses stood more than 130-feet high, towering
over a sub-canopy of tree ferns and an assortment of shrubs and tree-
sized horsetails that looked like giant asparagus.
Flash freeze
The scientists think a major earthquake about 300 million years ago
caused the region to drop below sea level where it was buried in mud.
They estimate that within a period of months the forest was buried,
preserving it "forever." ...
mel turner
news:132penh...@news.supernews.com...
> NPR announced today that a petrified forest has been found on private
> property near Yakima. Apparently the trees were standing when buried by a
> lava flow. Has anyone seen an article about this?
No, but a Google News search finds several:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=%22petrified+trees%22&filter=0
Thanks for the info!
cheers
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>
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Paul Ciszek
In article <1177345599.4...@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
<edwar...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070423/sc_livescience/ancientrainforestrevealedincoalmine
>
>"...The largest ever found, the fossil forest covers an area of about
>40 square miles, or nearly the size of San Francisco. This ancient
>assemblage of flora is thought to be one of the first rainforests on
>Earth, emerging during the Upper Carboniferous, or Pennsylvanian, time
>period that extended from about 310 million to 290 million years ago.
>
>A reconstruction of the ancient forest showed that like today's
>rainforests, it had a layered structure with a mix of plants now
>extinct: Abundant club mosses stood more than 130-feet high, towering
!!!
Did these club mosses develop something like heartwood?
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Frank J
wrote:
> property near Yakima. Apparently the trees were standing when buried by a
> lava flow. Has anyone seen an article about this?
Just a brief news story. I await the analysis by scientists. And of
course by Ed Conrad.
edwar...@verizon.net
Funny--I was just thinking about Ed for the first time in several
years. There was a recent post here on determining whether birds were
warm or cold blooded by examining the structure of their haversian
canals. Ed gave me a whole new perspective on the coal in my furnace--
it might be a relative!
Harry K
wrote:
> NPR announced today that a petrified forest has been found on private
> property near Yakima. Apparently the trees were standing when buried by a
> lava flow. Has anyone seen an article about this?
Yes. It was in my daily newspaper Spokesmanreview, Spokane WA
yesterday (4-22-07) Might have been Saturday's. Per that article the
land owner had been searching for it over a period of years. Article
reads as if he knew it existed but didn't explain how he knew.
Harry K
Nic
> In article <1177345599.479745.256...@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>
> <edward_...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070423/sc_livescience/ancientra...
>
> >"...The largest ever found, the fossil forest covers an area of about
> >40 square miles, or nearly the size of San Francisco. This ancient
> >assemblage of flora is thought to be one of the first rainforests on
> >Earth, emerging during the Upper Carboniferous, or Pennsylvanian, time
> >period that extended from about 310 million to 290 million years ago.
>
> >A reconstruction of the ancient forest showed that like today's
> >rainforests, it had a layered structure with a mix of plants now
> >extinct: Abundant club mosses stood more than 130-feet high, towering
>
> !!!
>
> Did these club mosses develop something like heartwood?
Well trumped.
JTEM
Two stories, apparently about two different forests.
The one you're talking about at 15 million years old:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/12769514/detail.html
and this was estimated at about 300 million years old:
Klaus
You need a diamond blade to cut it.
Klaus
Robert Carnegie
They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum...
eerok
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see em
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"eerok" <ee...@addr.invalid> wrote in message news:597bc9F...@mid.individual.net...
> Robert Carnegie wrote:
> > On Apr 24, 7:10 am, JTEM <jte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "R. Baldwin" <res0k...@nozirevBACKWARDS.net> wrote:
>
>
> >> > NPR announced today that a petrified forest has been found
> >> > on private property near Yakima. Apparently the trees were
> >> > standing when buried by a lava flow. Has anyone seen an
> >> > article about this?
>
> >> Two stories, apparently about two different forests.
> >>
> >> The one you're talking about at 15 million years old:
> >>
> >> http://www.kirotv.com/news/12769514/detail.html
> >>
> >> and this was estimated at about 300 million years old:
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/2bt2bl
>
>
> > They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum...
>
>
> And they charged the people
> A dollar and a half just to see em
Yeah, but I'm glad I wasn't in the neighborhood when they paved the parking lot!
Shane
Taxi !
Paul Ciszek
In article <1177386859.2...@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
Nic <harris...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 24 Apr, 00:03, nos...@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
>> In article <1177345599.479745.256...@b58g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> <edward_...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070423/sc_livescience/ancientra...
>>
>> >"...The largest ever found, the fossil forest covers an area of about
>> >40 square miles, or nearly the size of San Francisco. This ancient
>> >assemblage of flora is thought to be one of the first rainforests on
>> >Earth, emerging during the Upper Carboniferous, or Pennsylvanian, time
>> >period that extended from about 310 million to 290 million years ago.
>>
>> >A reconstruction of the ancient forest showed that like today's
>> >rainforests, it had a layered structure with a mix of plants now
>> >extinct: Abundant club mosses stood more than 130-feet high, towering
>>
>> !!!
>>
>> Did these club mosses develop something like heartwood?
>
>Well trumped.
Seriously, what sort of support structure allowed them to grow that
tall?